Bedstead-fastening



UNITE STATES PATEN muon',

WILLIAM SHAW, OF CLARION, PENNSYLVANIA.

BEDSTEAD-FASTENING.

Speccation of Letters Patent N o. 9,203, dated August 17, 1852.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, VILLIAM SHAW, of Clarion, in the county of Clarion and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new Improvement in Bedstead-Fastenings, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this speoioation.

Vhen the square of a bedstead-post is planed up I plow a groove in the post as shown in Figure l. I then make a groove-plug as shown by Fig. 2, which is to work up and down in the groove in the post, and also to work in the groove in the end of the rail as shown at letter A, Fig. 3. Wrhen the rail is made secure to the post by a metal clamp as shown by Fig. 4, and letter B, Fig. 3, I drive the groove-plug down tight against a wedge which is nailed and glued in the groove in the end of the rail as shown at letter C, Fig. 3, thereby preventing the rail from working up by reason of the friction and wedge of the groove-plug.

It will readily be seen that the head and foot rails may be made of plank and a clamp used on the out and inner sides of the long rails. And it may also be seen that the bed may be raised or lowered to any desirable height.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The plug as above described, in combination with the clamp or clamps for fastening bedsteads.

VILLIAM SHAW.

Witnesses G. STEFFEE, LUTHER S'rowE. 

